News

In an effort of engaging more with the community, the Swift team at IBM will be hosting regular webinars via Google Hangouts discussing code and future directions for Kitura and the tools around it. The first webinar is scheduled for today! Check the link for time information.

Free SSL/TLS Certificates are coming to Let's Encrypt offering starting next January. This is great news! Gone are the times where you had to pay for simple SSL certificates. With the wildcard option, we can secure all of our website for free! 🎉

Apple has just started a Machine Learning journal. This blog will probably be a mix of on-device and server-side machine learning, leaning more towards the on-device side of things, given they just released CoreML as part of the iOS SDK. Anyway, it's great to see Apple take the initiative this way!

Swift

A good reminder of how memory management works in Swift. I had already linked to an article discussing memory leaks in closures. It's always good to review these things. Sometimes details just slip out of one's mind.

This package by John Connoly is a distributed task queue for server side swift applications. Task queues are used as a mechanism to distribute work across machines. SwiftQ uses messages to communicate between clients and workers with the help of Redis.

Other

A friendly reminder that we, as developers, always need to take into account where the user is located and under what circumstances they might be using our app (no matter if it's for the web or native).